Americans overwhelmingly oppose the idea of taxing the health insurance benefits provided by their employers but are less adamant when it comes to workers who earn more than $150,000 a year.

Proposals have been made to include the amount employers pay toward a worker’s health insurance as part of his or her overall taxable income, but just 13% of American Adults think that’s a good idea. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 73% oppose taxing health insurance benefits provided by employers. Fourteen percent (14%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

The survey of 1,000 American Adults was conducted on February 17-18, 2013 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

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